Edit: As others have pointed out, it seems switching them off does stop them from drawing power.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do they draw power when switched off completely???

    Nope. so that rocker switch physically breaks the connection between the wall socket and whatever is plugged into it’s sockets. as far as power consumption goes, it’s basically identical to unplugging from the wall.

    Maybe they’re actually listening to us.

    Do… you know about your cell phone? they don’t need to but bugs in surge protectors because we so very handily take the world’s greatest spying device with us everywhere we go. willingly. without a second though.

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      1 year ago

      So true 😁 George Orwell was a bit off on the timing and missed the scale of surveillance by a mile, but got the idea spot on.